Curfew has been extended to 10 p.m. and a corps of 250 former Railway Guards, who are mostly Peiping and Tientsin men, has been formed with Mr. Tung Yung Ching as Commissioner to assist in the preservation of law and order here.
Mr. Y. F. Lee, the Chief Engineer of the Waterworks has now resigned and has gone to Shanghai for the China New Year. Mr. Takahashi, Manager of the Light & Power Com: pany will also manage the city's water supply which has been taken over by the Japanese authorities, who may turn it into a private Japanese company as compensation for damage to the power station at Tsangkow.
Chinese Government banks were reopened on January 17 as were the Bank of Chosen and also the Yokohama Specie Bank, the following day, About 4,000 former Japanese residents are expected to be back in Tsingtao before the end of this month and a Japanese newspaper, the "Shantung Mainichi" has recommenced publishing daily.
Mr. T. Yamamoto (formerly Chief Appraiser) has been appointed Commissioner of Customs here, vice Mr. A. S. Campbell, who will be leaving for Shanghai to take up a post in the Custom House there.
Large numbers of Japanese troops have been coming and going and thefe seems no doubt that Tsingtao Has been chosen on account of its many advantages, to be a big base for military operations.
he heavy cruiser Ashigara, which attended the Coronation last year, is still here with about five newly arrived transports, a minelayer and a cable ship.
The Japanese authorities, with a large number of divers at work, expect to have the harbour and wharves free of all obstructions within a fortnight and. are hastening the return to normalcy.
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